The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
The film chronicles the life of Pippa Lee, with flashbacks to her tumultuous past. Pippa Sarkissian was the youngest child and only girl in her large Christian family. Her mother Suky was a neurotic mother with an obsessive fixation on her daughter’s looks. By her teen years, Pippa discovers that her mother takes amphetamines to self-medicate vast mood swings. She has a confrontation with her mother by taking drugs and Pippa moves to her aunt and roommate, who are in a lesbian menage. The aunt discovers Pippa participating in erotic photo sessions with the roommate and her friends; Pippa is banished again and goes on to live a bohemian life of drugs and work as an exotic dancer.
On a weekend jaunt with like-minded friends, she meets a charismatic publisher named Herb Lee who is 30 years older than her and a romance develops between them. The couple marries, have two children, and later moves into a retirement home in Connecticut. Through her marriage, Pippa has become the “perfect wife.” loving, supportive, everything to everyone and no-one to herself. The couple grows apart; Herb has an affair with one of Pippa’s friends and middle-aged Pippa has encounters with a younger man named Chris.
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Cast:  Robin WrightPippa Lee  Blake LivelyYoung Pippa  Keanu ReevesChris Nadeau  Alan ArkinHerb Lee  Winona RyderSandra Dulles  Maria BelloSuky Sarkissian  Monica BellucciGigi Lee  Mike BinderSam Shapiro  Ryan McDonaldBen Lee  Zoe KazanGrace Lee  Shirley KnightDot Nadeau  Robin WeigertAunt Trish  Tim GuineeDes Sarkissian |
Julianne MooreThe film chronicles the life of Pippa Lee, with flashbacks to her tumultuous past. Pippa Sarkissian was the youngest child and only girl in her large Christian family. Her mother Suky was a neurotic mother with an obsessive fixation on her daughter’s looks. By her teen years, Pippa discovers that her mother takes amphetamines to self-medicate vast mood swings. She has a confrontation with her mother by taking drugs and Pippa moves to her aunt and roommate, who are in a lesbian menage. The aunt discovers Pippa participating in erotic photo sessions with the roommate and her friends; Pippa is banished again and goes on to live a bohemian life of drugs and work as an exotic dancer.
On a weekend jaunt with like-minded friends, she meets a charismatic publisher named Herb Lee who is 30 years older than her and a romance develops between them. The couple marries, have two children, and later moves into a retirement home in Connecticut. Through her marriage, Pippa has become the “perfect wife.” loving, supportive, everything to everyone and no-one to herself. The couple grows apart; Herb has an affair with one of Pippa’s friends and middle-aged Pippa has encounters with a younger man named Chris.
